Professor, Moral Theology

John Berkman obtained a BA in philosophy at the University of Toronto, and completed his PhD in the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University. Before joining the Regis College Faculty in 2009, he taught at the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA and in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Duke Divinity School and the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life.

“Medically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration in Medicine and Moral Theology: A Contextualization of its Past and a Direction for its Future,” Medicine, Health Care, and Ethics: Catholic Voices, ed. John F. Morris, Catholic University of America Press, 2007.

“The Children of the Poor as Saving Remnant: John A. Ryan, Family Size, and the Common Good,”Religion and Public Life: The Legacy of Monsignor John A. Ryan, ed. Robert G. Kennedy et al., Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001, 299-312.